How to stop my 9-year-old daughter's kleptomania?

Kleptomania is already “something serious”. It’s a need for attention, for material possesions, and your child for some reason feels unfulfilled in life.

I recommend firstly, a counselor that is routine and consistent, indefinitely. Often Kleptiomania in children is a result of serious pain they have deep within.

Also, keep your child busy–enroll in some parent-child activities that you can do together. Join a rec center swimming program or get her involved in sports. You have to be seriously committed to doing this and be consistent.

Good luck, darlin!

Treatments:

Kleptomania has several different treatments. Behavior modification therapy and family therapy may be used to treat kleptomaniacs.

Some medications that are used for people diagnosed with kleptomania are fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline, lithium, trazodone and Valproate.

Some symptoms of it:

Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value. Increasing sense of tension immediately before committing the theft. Pleasure, gratification, or relief at the time of committing the theft. Stealing not committed to express anger or vengeance Stealing not in response to a delusion or hallucination.